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The National Biography Award, established in Australia in 1996, is awarded for the best published work of biographical or autobiographical writing by an Australian. It aims "to encourage the highest standards of writing biography and autobiography and to promote public interest in those genres".〔State Library of New South Wales〕 It was initially awarded every two years, but from 2002 it has been awarded annually. Its administration was taken over by the State Library of New South Wales in 1998. It was originally endowed by private benefactor, Dr. Geoffrey Cains, and the original prize money was $12,500. In 2002, Cains said of endowing the award that "I wanted to give back to literature something, it had given me so much; besides, philanthropy in this country is so overlooked and diminished".〔Bennie (2002)〕 In 2005, the prize money was increased to $20,000 with the support of Michael Crouch.〔State Library of New South Wales (2005)〕 Belinda Hutchinson, President of the Library Council of NSW, expressed gratitude for this increase to "an award that celebrates the Australian psyche through distinguished biography writing."〔 In 2012 the prize money for the Award has been increased to $25,000. The judging panel varies from year to year. In 1998, the first year it was administered by the State Library of New South Wales, the panel comprised Elizabeth Jolley, Helen Garner and Tony Maniaty. In 2012 the Judging Panel comprises Peter Rose, Dr Bernadette Brennan and Hilary McPhee AO. ==Winners== *2014: Alison Alexander for ''The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer'' *2013: Peter Fitzpatrick for ''The Two Frank Thrings'' *2012: Martin Thomas for ''The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist''〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/story/dr-martin-thomas-wins-2012-national-biography-award )〕 *2011: Alasdair McGregor for ''Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin'' *2010: Brian Matthews for ''Manning Clark: A Life'' *2009: Ann Blainey for ''I am Melba'' *2008: Joint winners * *Philip Dwyer for ''Napoleon, 1769-1799: The Path to Power'' * *Graham Seal for ''These Few Lines: A Convict Story - The Lost Lives of Myra and William Sykes'' *2007: Jacob Rosenberg for ''East of Time'' *2006: John Hughes for ''The Idea of Home'' *2005: Robert Hillman for ''The Boy in the Green Suit'' *2004: Barry Hill for ''Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession'' *2003: Joint winners * *Peter Rose for ''Rose Boys'' * *Don Watson for ''Recollections of a Bleeding Heart : a Portrait of Paul Keating PM'' *2002: Jacqueline Kent for ''A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life'' *2000: Joint winners * *Peter Robb for ''M, a biography of European painter Caravaggio'' * *Mandy Sayer for ''Dreamtime Alice: a Memoir'' *1998: Roberta Sykes for ''Snake Cradle'' *1996: Abraham Biderman for ''The World of My Past'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Biography Award」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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